Nikolay Shkodunovich
Nikolay Nikolayevich Shkodunovich | |
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Born | 24 April 1900 Tver, Russian Empire |
Died | 19 October 1964 Belgrade, Yugoslavia | (aged 64)
Allegiance |
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Service/ | Red Army (later Soviet Army) |
Years of service | 1919–1964 |
Rank | Lieutenant general |
Commands held | |
Battles/wars | |
Awards | Order of Lenin (2) |
Nikolay Nikolayevich Shkodunovich (Russian: Николай Николаевич Шкодунович; 24 April 1900 – 19 October 1964) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held corps and division command during World War II.
Shkodunovich became a military commissar during the
Early life and Russian Civil War
A Russian, Nikolay Nikolayevich Shkodunovich was born on 24 April 1900 in the city of Tver.[1] Before serving in the army, he worked as an accounts clerk at the Rozhdestvenskaya textile mill.[2]
During the
The battalion was relocated to the Western Front in October 1920 and reorganized as the 155th Regiment of the Internal Service Troops (VNUS), part of the 18th Division of the VNUS, and Shkodunovich appointed assistant regimental military commissar. From November he served as military commissar of the headquarters of the 53rd Brigade of this division in Vitebsk. After the disbandment of the division in February 1921, Shkodunovich was sent to the Volga Military District, where he served in the 26th Rifle Division of the VNUS as military commissar of the headquarters of the 77th Brigade. With this unit he fought in actions against the forces of Bakulin and Popov in the Transvolga region. In May 1921 he was appointed military commissar of the headquarters of the 50th Rifle Division. After its disbandment in August 1921, he became an instructor of the political department of the 126th and then the 97th Separate Rifle Brigades of the district.[2][1]
Interwar period
In February 1922, Shkodunovich was appointed assistant military commissar of the 5th Ural Rifle Regiment of the 2nd Separate Brigade in the Volga Military District. After its disbandment in August he became military commissar of the motor vehicle detachment of the 32nd Rifle Division of the district. Shkodunovich rose to assistant military commissar of the 94th Frunze Red Banner Rifle Regiment of the 32nd in October 1923 before becoming regimental military commissar. Sent to the Vystrel course for advanced training in November 1926, he returned to the 32nd Division after graduation and served with the 95th Volga Rifle Regiment as a battalion commander, acting regimental commander, and regimental chief of staff. In October 1930 he was appointed commander of a cadet battalion at the Ulyanovsk Lenin Red Banner Infantry School and then sent to the KUVNAS course in Moscow. After graduating in January 1931, he became commander and commissar of the 91st Astrakhan Rifle Regiment of the 31st Rifle Division of the Volga Military District in April.[2][1]
In April 1932 Shkodunovich was sent to the
World War II
After
Shkodunovich took command of the newly formed
Postwar
After the end of the war, Shkodunovich continued to command the corps in the Southern Group of Forces. Appointed a senior instructor at the Higher Military Academy in January 1946, he promoted to lieutenant general in 1949. Shkodunovich was transferred to the Frunze Military Academy in September 1952, where he served as deputy chief of the academy for operational and tactical training, then from November 1955 served there as deputy chief for scientific research work (from September 1961 this position was deputy chief for scientific and training work). Shkodunovich was awarded the title of docent for the higher unit tactics faculty on 5 August 1953 and on 15 September 1961 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for "merits in training of specialists and in the development of military science." Shkodunovich died in a plane crash in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on 19 October 1964 along with several other Soviet generals visiting for the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of the country during the war.[2][1][7]
Awards and honors
Shkodunovich received the following decorations:[2][1]
- Order of Lenin (2)
- Order of the Red Banner (3)
- Order of Kutuzov, 1st class
- Order of Suvorov, 2nd class
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Order of the Red Star
- Medals
A Soviet tanker was named General Shkodunovich in his honor.[7]
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Vozhakin 2006, pp. 636–637.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Tsapayev & Goremykin 2014, pp. 1030–1031.
- ^ Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 129.
- ^ Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 214.
- ^ Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 29.
- ^ "Документ 936. О присвоении воинских званий офицерскому составу и генералам Красной Армии" [Document 936: On the assignment of military ranks to officers and generals of the Red Army]. Documents of the Soviet era (in Russian). 28 April 1943. p. 3.
- ^ a b "Родом из Твери. Николай Шкодунович". Tverigrad. 29 July 2013.
Bibliography
- Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union (1964). Командование корпусного и дивизионного звена советских вооруженных сил периода Великой Отечественной войны 1941 – 1945 гг [Commanders of Corps and Divisions in the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945] (in Russian). Moscow: Frunze Military Academy.
- Tsapayev, D.A.; et al. (2014). Великая Отечественная: Комдивы. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Division Commanders. Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 5. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 978-5-9950-0457-8.
- Vozhakin, M.G., ed. (2006). Великая Отечественная. Комкоры. Военный биографический словарь [The Great Patriotic War: Corps Commanders: Military Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole. ISBN 5901679083.